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Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives What is resolution? What resolution should I look for when I buy a scanner? What resolution should I use when using my scanner? These are questions we hear frequently when speaking to people about their digital conversion projects. Unfortunately, …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Lead A previous post described the End of Term collaborative web archive. Well, when we say collaborative, we mean it. This year, our call for volunteers brought forward Associate Professor Debbie Rabina and her fabulous students at Pratt, who identified …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Susan Manus
So, how far along are we with cloning? Because I could have really used a clone or two in order to cover the many (sometimes concurrent) interesting sessions at this year’s Museum Computer Network conference in Seattle. Since this was my first MCN, I’m probably looking at this with more of a beginner’s “gee whiz” …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
In anticipation of the Museum Computer Network conference next week in Seattle, I’ve been giving some extra thought lately to museum community involvement in digital preservation. We (the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, that is) work with many partners from a range of industries, and in the last couple of years this has …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
Here at the Library of Congress, there are many projects underway to digitize and make available vast amounts of historic, archival material. One such project is the National Digital Newspaper Program, providing access to millions of pages from historic newspapers (a previous blog post provides an introduction). Deb Thomas, NDNP program coordinator here at the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Ali Fazal and Claudia Martinez, both HACU interns with the Library’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The National Digital Stewardship Residency program held a meeting with potential host institutions on Friday, September 21st. This program, which was created by the Library of Congress, Office of Strategic Initiatives, and the Institute …
Posted in: Education and Training, Inside the Library
Posted by: Susan Manus
The shortlist for this year’s Digital Preservation Awards has just been announced during a celebration in London marking the 10th anniversary of the Digital Preservation Coalition. And we are pleased to see that our blog, The Signal, has made the list! The DPC , an advocacy organization in the United Kingdom, sponsors these awards to recognize …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Susan Manus
Heads up, recent grad students! The National Digital Stewardship Residency program is in the works, and Library of Congress staff members are currently working with other institutions in the Washington, D.C. area to set up this new program, which promises to be a great opportunity for students to gain real world experience with digital preservation …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Posted by: Susan Manus
Digital preservation’s many challenges (planning, choosing formats, metadata, storage, etc.), can be further complicated when dealing with multi-media cultural and arts materials. For example, music and dance performances that incorporate the digital may also include the element of chance, and can change with each performance. Or, maybe a piece of born digital artwork was created with several software programs that are already obsolete. …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events